Liubov Folger

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University Lecturer at University of Helsinki

This paper analyses valuations of ‘good’ interdisciplinary research that manifest in research planning workshops. We use ethnographic case data from an interdisciplinary research project on vertical farming to build insight on how differing registers in the valuing of ‘good’ interdisciplinary research are balanced. The vertical farming project we u...

The managerial transformation of higher education often means implementing novel modes of teaching and learning, including experiential and collaborative teaching. University teachers’ agency is crucial for managing and enacting changes in higher education. Collaborating as part of these changes requires a specific kind of agency, namely relational...

This study analyses development of research-related innovation activities in a University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Finland. Focus on production of innovations in relation to academization challenges the traditions of applied research in UAS, which has always relied on collaboration with local stakeholders. Drawing on the approach of cultural-hi...

This paper analyses a network's learning through co-configuration. The co-configuration process of a novel business model-a cooperative in a digital printing network demonstrates that the quest for sustainability in innovations sets the network participants a learning challenge. The study draws on the conceptualization of object-oriented co-configu...

Extended reality (XR), here jointly referring to virtual, augmented, and mixed (VR, AR, MR) reality, is becoming more common in everyday working life. This paper presents a systematic literature review of academic publications on XR indicating changes in practical organization of work. We analyse both application areas of XR and theoretical and met...

Methodological procedures are frequently described using ideal-typical sequences and relatively linear phases, often covering the whole research process. We aim to uncover the long-term process of construction of a conceptual framework of a study as constituted by cycles using the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete (AAC) as a sta...

This article investigates the learning of a digital printing network that was seeking sustainable collaboration in the textile, clothing, and interior printing industry. Digitalization is transforming work, giving rise to new types of networks and creating learning challenges for participants. The object of digital printing activity becomes heterog...

This study consists of three different approaches to networks in the field of digital printing. The practice part of the study aims to construct a new business ecosystem – a Digital Printing Network (DPN) including designers, digital manufacturers, and material manufacturers. Consumer research studies reveal that creation is valued in a digital pri...

Original language: Russian The paper focuses on the main ideas of activity�theoretical concept of expansive learning developed by Yrjo Engestrom. The aim of this current review is to outline the conceptual perspectives of applied psychological research in various areas of human work activity. The paper highlights the basic conditions and developme...